Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month (except August) at 7.30 pm unless otherwise stated, at Friends’ Meeting House, Lechlade Road, Faringdon.

Our meetings are usually open to the public. For more details, please ring 01367 710308 or 241707 or 240808

Also - Please try and bring with you a gift for the Tombola (especially alcohol)/ new or good second hand items/toiletries/ tins of food, etc. etc. and/or a Bottle for the Bottle Stall –anything in a bottle, from shampoo to champagne.

Monthly Meetings are held on every first Wednesday (except August) at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated, at Friends’ Meeting House, (F.M.H.) Lechlade Road, Faringdon. SN7 8AQ Our meetings are almost always open to the public.

Since last meeting: 13 of us went to London on a cold, sunny January day for the ‘Wrap Up Trident’ Pink Scarf demo and the rally in Old Palace Yard. Photos available.

‘Wool Against Weapons’ A project to link Burghfield and Aldermaston by scarves!! In August.

Each scarf 60cm by 100cm. Should we repeat our success of the ‘Knitting for Peace’ under Faringdon Town Hall back in the 1980’s when we knitted squares for Oxfam blankets. ? It was a good photo opportunity!

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign states that the Co-op no longer stocks goods from the illegal Israeli settlements on land that has been stolen from the Palestinians. There is a campaign to urge Sainsbury’s to follow suit. National Day of Action on Sat. 1st March.

‘We may not win by protesting. But if we don’t protest we will lose. If we stand up to them there’s always a chance that we will win’. Hetty Bower. Hetty died recently at the age of 108 after a lifetime of protest. We met her last year at the ‘April Fool’s Day’ protest at Aldermaston.

Peace Pledge Union is already planning and fundraising for a major project to begin in 2014, ‘a year that will see the beginning of several years of World War One mania’. Lost, unless we succeed, will be the voices of opposition to the war and resistance to conscription by thousands of men’

Morocco invaded Western Sahara in 1975, and is still in occupation, oppressing the Saharawi. Morocco has divided the country with a 1.500 km wall, protected by minefields and 120,000 soldiers. More info: www.wsahara.org.u

In 1975 Morocco invaded Western Sahara, and is still in occupation, oppressing the Saharawi. The length of the wall that splits Western Sahara into two is 2500km . This wall is also the longest and most dangerous wall all over the world, dividing Saharaui families, it has more than 9 000 000 antipersonal mines spread all over it (300 meters both sides) - according to the Pentagon. 120 000 thousand soldiers are vigilating it with tanks, heavy artillery, and the worst of all is that the world never hears about this anachronism. There is another wall of silence we absolutely need to break. More info: www.wsahara.org.uk